Amusements In Mathematics

Contents

• PREFACE

• ARITHMETICAL AND ALGEBRAICAL PROBLEMS
  • Money Puzzles
  • Age and Kinship Puzzles
  • Clock Puzzles
  • Locomotion and Speed Puzzles
  • Digital Puzzles
  • Various Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems
• GEOMETRICAL PROBLEMS
  • Dissection Puzzles
  • Greek Cross Puzzles
  • Various Dissection Puzzles
  • Patchwork Puzzles
  • Various Geometrical Puzzles
• POINTS AND LINES PROBLEMS
• MOVING COUNTER PROBLEMS
• UNICURSAL AND ROUTE PROBLEMS
• COMBINATION AND GROUP PROBLEMS
• CHESSBOARD PROBLEMS
  • The Chessboard
  • Statical Chess Puzzles
  • The Guarded Chessboard
  • Dynamical Chess Puzzles
  • Various Chess Puzzles
• MEASURING, WEIGHING, AND PACKING PUZZLES
• CROSSING RIVER PROBLEMS
• PROBLEMS CONCERNING GAMES
• PUZZLE GAMES
• MAGIC SQUARE PROBLEMS
  • Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Magics
  • Magic Squares of Primes
• MAZES AND HOW TO THREAD THEM
• THE PARADOX PARTY
• UNCLASSIFIED PROBLEMS
• SOLUTIONS
• INDEX
• APPENDIX. British Currency